Conservative socialism

Conservative socialism is a form of socialism that supports a social conscience instead of pure individualism, opposed bourgeois laissez-faire capitalism, and saw liberalism and nationalism as forms of middle-class dictatorship over the masses. The ideology was supported by Klemens von Metternich as early as 1847, and it was seen as a non-revolutionary alternative to social democracy and a means to justify the acceptance of Prussian leader Otto von Bismarck's social policies.